Re: [LINK] Linux running under Windows?!!

2019-05-09 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2018-11-11 12:35:58 UTC+1100, andrew clarke (m...@ozzmosis.com) wrote: > WSL's biggest tradeoff seems to be poor disk I/O performance compared to > native Linux (or even compared to running Linux in a virtual machine). > I suspect Cygwin binaries also perform disk I/O qui

Re: [LINK] Linux running under Windows?!!

2018-11-10 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2018-11-10 11:19:01 UTC+1100, Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) wrote: > On Sat, 2018-11-10 at 10:13 +1100, David wrote: > > > While looking for something quite unrelated I stumbled on the article > > at https://www.howtogeek.com/265900/everything-you-can-do-with- > >

[LINK] Network error: What will be the cost of a patchwork NBN?

2017-04-11 Thread andrew clarke
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2017/april/1490965200/paddy-manning/network-error ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

2016-07-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2016-07-21 16:59:02 UTC+1000, Jim Birch (planet...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Do you suppose Tesla will be required to make their source code > > available for scrutiny if things get to court? > > > Do you suppose that anyone could understand it? A multilayer neural > network is essentially

Re: [LINK] Let's pause before drinking the 'coding in schools' Kool-Aid

2015-06-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2015-06-03 17:13:47 UTC+1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn (b...@iimetro.com.au) wrote: There is far more to technology, in general, and Information Systems in particular, than coding. And when it comes to the use of technology, knowledge of coding isn't even relevant. Despite the good

Re: [LINK] How the NSA can make your phone pretend to turn off

2014-06-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2014-06-08 17:50:16 UTC+1000, Kim Holburn (k...@holburn.net) wrote: http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/technology/security/nsa-turn-on-phone/ How the NSA can 'turn on' your phone remotely Even if you power off your cell phone, the U.S. government can turn it back on. This sounds

Re: [LINK] Perfect Forward Secrecy

2013-11-25 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2013-11-25 09:39:18 UTC+1100, Jim Birch (planet...@gmail.com) wrote: I thought Twitter was for broadcasting to anyone willing to listen? Not entirely. Twitter has locked accounts where you need the account holder's permission to follow them to read their tweets. Twitter also allows DMs

[LINK] The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

2013-11-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2013-11-13 09:13:19 UTC+, step...@melbpc.org.au (step...@melbpc.org.au) wrote: Can't add anything regards tracking, but it's astonishing how easy it is to apparently attract mobile phone malware. On the subject of mobile phone security, I thought this was a bit alarming